QA Engineer → Security Engineer in the making
Perth, Australia
I’m a QA Engineer transitioning into Cybersecurity, with a background spanning Finance, Logistics, and Customer Service. I finished my QA Engineering bootcamp at TripleTen and I’m now deepening my technical foundation through hands-on cybersecurity labs, a home lab setup, and self-directed study.
In Semester 2, 2026, I’ll begin a Master of Cyber Security at Edith Cowan University (ECU) in Perth, one of Australia’s leading institutions in the field, with a scholarship and an industry placement program in the final semester.
My goal is to work as a Security Engineer or Analyst, combining my QA mindset (systematic thinking, structured testing, documentation) with security fundamentals.
- 🎓 Accepted into the Master of Cyber Security at ECU — starting Semester 2, 2026
- 🛡️ Building a cybersecurity home lab: Kali Linux VM, SSH, network segmentation, Raspberry Pi phase coming
- 🔬 Working through KC7 (KQL threat hunting) and CyLab/picoCTF challenges
- 📓 Maintaining an Obsidian Cyber Vault for structured notes and an evolving learning methodology
- 📂 Logging everything publicly in my Learning Log
- ✅ Graduated from the QA Engineering Bootcamp at TripleTen
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Python |
Git |
GitHub |
VS Code |
Figma |
Obsidian |
Selenium |
Postman |
Android Studio |
PyCharm |
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Swagger |
Jira |
Kali Linux |
Wireshark |
PostgreSQL |
MySQL |
SSH |
KQL |
GitHub Copilot |
My public learning log is where I document everything I study, from QA fundamentals to cybersecurity labs, networking concepts, and hands-on tool usage. It’s a live record of how I learn, not just what I’ve learned.
Topics covered so far: KQL · Threat Hunting · KC7 · CyLab/picoCTF · SSH · Kali Linux · QA Fundamentals · API Testing · Python Automation
My background is in QA, Finance, and Logistics , not a traditional path into cybersecurity, but it gave me habits that carry over: testing assumptions, documenting clearly, and paying attention to detail.
I learn by doing. Right now that means running a home lab with a Kali Linux VM, working through platforms like KC7 and picoCTF, and keeping a public learning log of everything I pick up along the way.
I’m early in this transition and I know it. That’s exactly why I keep things documented and visible so my progress speaks for itself.
Thanks for visiting — follow along as the portfolio grows.
